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RE: amazonaws.com?

  • From: michael.dillon
  • Date: Fri May 30 03:55:08 2008 
> So to get Amazon to police their customers either requires 
> regulation or an external economic pressure. Blocking AWS 
> from folk's mail servers would apply some pressure,

No it would not. That is what AWS wants you to to. 

> making 
> areas of the net go dark to AWS would apply more pressure 
> faster. A considerable amount of pressure could be placed by 
> a big enough money damages lawsuit but that has a feedback 
> delay of months to years.

And such lawsuits can go both ways. As soon as a company moves
beyond protective blocking of port 25, to punitive blocking of
all traffic from AWS, they run the risk of being the target of
a damages lawsuit. Not to mention complaints from their own
customers.

There simply is no simple solution to this problem.

--Michael Dillon